The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367880897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 282 str.

Sophie Chiari

Opis

Contributors to this volume examine the question of transmission and of the educational procedures in16th- and 17th-century England by emphasizing deviant practices that questioned, reassessed or even challenged pre-established cultural norms and traditions. Chapters analyse how the interrelated processes of initiation, transmission and transgressi

Spis treści

Part 1 Theories and Philosophies of Transmission:  Ship of Fools: Foucault and the Shakespeareans.  Shakespeare's paradoxes of excellence.  Shakespeare and the atomist heritage.  Part 2 Initiation Practices:  Hilliard and Sidney's 'rule of the eye'.  Mercurial apprentices in city comedies.  The courtesan and her mother in Middleton's A Mad World, my Masters.  Rumour and second-hand knowledge in Much Ado About Nothing.  Part 3 Political and Spiritual Issues:  Marlowe's political balancing act: religion and translatio imperii in Doctor Faustus (B).  Magic, manipulation and misrule in Doctor Faustus and Measure for Measure.  Shakespeare and the violation of sanctuary.  Limited being: revising Hamlet in The Revenger's Tragedy.  Part 4 Transgressions of Gender and Genre:  Cephalus and Procris: the transmission of a myth in early modern England.  Out-Oviding Ovid in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis.  From intertextual to gender transgression in Middleton's The Witch.  'Transversing' and 'transprosing': the case of George Villiers's The Rehearsal (1671).  Romeo and Juliet in Brazil: Grupo Galpao's Romeu e Julieta.  Afterword: 'Love's transgression'.

 

O autorze

Sophie Chiari is Professor of Early Modern Literature at Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand (CERHAC, French National Centre for Scientific Research).